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BUTTON-ATTAGHING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3Q, 1913.

Application filed August 15, 1912. Serial No. 715,18?.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES BARANOVITS,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Attaching Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for attaching hollow shank buttons, such as shoe buttons, to shoes or other flat material.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple compact and high speed machine for attachingbuttons to shoes or the like, and the invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings ;-Figure 1 isa side elevation of a machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2- is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the machine, with parts broken away. Fig. 4 is a similar view with the button feed mechanism removed and with other parts of the machine shown in section. Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the loop closing members. Fig. '6 is a side elevation ofa combined shearin and loop forming member. Fig. 7 is a side elevation, partially in section of a combined button holder and loop forming member;

Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are views, diagrammatic in their nature, illustrating in assembled positions the elements shown in Figs 5, 6 and 7 and the positions of said elements in successive stages of operation of the machine. Fig. 11 is a side elevation of a toothed wheel for feeding the buttons to the attaching mechanism. Fig. 12 is a bottom plan view of a toothed disk for imparting movement from the actuating device to the loop cutting and forming members. Fig. 13 is a section on the line 13-13 of Fig. '12. Fig. 14 is a side elevation of the feed wheel of the button feed mechanism. Fig. 15 is a section on the line -1515 of Fig. 14. Fig. 16 is a plan view of the portion of the button chute leading from the feed box to the button attaching mechanism. Fig. 17 is a transverse section on the line 17-l? of Fig. 16. Fig. 18 is a detail of the means for directing the buttons from the lower end of the button chute to the attaching mechanism.

The bed plate 20 of the machine is'shown as inclined downwardly and forwardly and is supported from the base by the webs or standards 22, 23. Slidingly supported on the top of the bed plate is a reciprocating rack bar 24 confined between guides 25, 25. The rack bar is suitably connected at one end to, and is adapted to'be operated by, a hand lever 26 that is pivoted at 27 to 21 dependingportion of the bed plate, the plate being slotted to receive the hand lever. The said hand lever has an extension 28 beneath the bed plate that may be connected, as by the link 29, to a foot treadle, (not shown) whereby the machine maybe operated by either hand or foot power. rack bar are adapted to mesh with an arouate series ofteeth 30' on a horizontal disk 31 that is axially carried by a vertical shaft 32 which is rotatively mounted in suitable bearlugs 33 in the bed plate.

Arranged on the side of the bed plate remote from the actuating rack bar 24, and parallel therewith as herein shown, are two rec-iprocable members 36, 37, shown in detail in Figs. 5 and 6. The member 36 constitutes part of the mechanism for closing the button fastening loop, it cooperating with an anvil 116 in line therewith to first drive the form, through the material, and thereafter to close the loop about the material and button shank to fasten the button in place. Said loop closing member. or driver c0mprises a rear enlar ed portion, of rectangular cross section as herein shown, that is guided between guide flanges 39 and 40 which rise from the bed plate at the rear end thereof, and a thinner forwardly extending prolongation 42 that lies in a guide space or groove formed between the side members 43, 43 of the shearing and forming member 37. The said forward end 42 of the driver member 36 is provided with a downwardly ex tending thickened portion 45, the rear face of which constitutes a shoulder 46 to engage a forwardly facing shoulder 48 of the combined shearing and forming member" 37. Said latter member is provided with a rear wardly extending stem 50 which is surrounded by a coil spring 51 that extends at its rear end slightly beyond thestem. The stem and spring lie within a downwardly partiallyformed, loop, of staple The teeth of the opening recess 52 formed in the bottom of the' rear thickened end of the driver member 36, asmost clearly shown in Fig. 2. When the parts are assembled therefore, the spring '51 serves to hold the shoulder 46 of the member 36 against the shoulder 48 of the member 37, while permitting the latter mem ber to be reciprocated relatively to the former. The shearing and forming member 37 is slidable between guide flanges 52, 53 arranged in alinement to the guides 39, a0,

and the slidable members are confinedin properly guided ..position by a cap plate 54- removably attached as by screws, to the guide flanges. Said driver 36 is provided with a short rack 55 and the combined shearing and forming member 37 is provided inline with therack 55 with a similar rack 56. Said racks are adapted to be successively engaged by two arcuate series of gear teeth 58, 59 respectively, that are formed on the disk 31 on the side of its axis remote from the longer series of teeth 30.

Located at the forward ends of and beneath the bed plateand immediately beneath the reciprocable members 36, 37 is a vertically swinging, L-shaped button supporting. and loop forming member that is pivoted at 66 to the bed plate, with its short upstanding arm 68 normally disposed in front of the driver 42, and in line with the groove on the shearing and forming member 37, as most clearly shown in Figs. 4;, 8, 9 and 10. The said button supporting and loop forming member is provided at against said member, a stop 73 limiting the upward movement thereof. The said member receives, a button A when in its receiving position and holds to the button with the eye of its shank in position to receive a length of wire B from the wire feeding device, hereinafter to be described, the wire being shown in Fig. 8 after it has been fed through the shank eye of the button.

' The wire is supplied from a spool 80 that is rotatively mounted on a shaft 81 supported by a bracket 82 from the bed plate of the machine, said spool being inclosed by a casing 83. The feed device for feeding the wire from the spool comprises a horizontally swinging lever 85 pivoted at 86 to the bed plate, and provided at its forward end with an upstanding portion ST having a rear inclined face, between which and the roughened end face of a spring pressed dog 89 the wire is gripped when the lever is swung into its feeding position.

to force the serrated end of the dog toward the-inclined rear face of the upstanding portion 87 of the feed lever. When, therefore, said lever is swung toward the wire loop forming devices the wire is gripped between said upstanding part of the feed lever and the dog so as to be forced toward the loop forming devices, and when the lever is swung in the other direction, the spring 90 permits the serrated end of the dog to swing away from the upstanding end of the lever and allow the parts to pass over the wire without giving movement thereto.

The free end of the wire is guided into the eye of the button through a guide 9% in 'the guide flange 53 and is rigidly held by said guide when the wire is sheared. The extentof swing of the guide lever is such as to bring the free end pf the wire at the end of each feed movement against the other guide flange 52.

In order to avoid the wire being dragged backwardly by the feed lever as the latter is retracted, I may provide a brake device, which, as herein shown, consists of a block 96 provided with an upstanding part 97 and a Wire guide 98, the latter arranged in alinement with the wire guide 941. Pivoted to the block isa dog 100 having a serrated end, between which and the upstanding part of the block 97 the wire is pinched or gripped, the'dog being pressed toward its gripping position by the spring 101 bearing against one side thereof. Said spring permits the dog to swing freely in the other direction during the feed movement of the wire.

The wire feed lever is herein shown as actuated by the rotating disk 31. For this purpose the rear end of the feed lever e. tends into a segmental notch 104E formed in the lower side of the disk, the said recess being provided at the sides thereof with shoulders 105 and 106 for engagement with the feed lever at points in advance of its pivot. When the actuating rack bar 24 is moved to the extreme rearward limit of its throw and the disk 31, therefore, turned to one extreme limit of its movement, the shoulder 106 of the notch 104 engages with the feed lever to swing the same to its extreme retracted position, which position of the lever is indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. W hen the said actuating rack bar and disk are moved to the opposite limits of their throw, the other shoulder 105 of the said notch 10% serves to swing the lever toward and into its feeding position. The feed lever does not project beyond the machine frame and cannot therefore cor-1e into contact with the leather of the shoe or other material to which the buttons are attached.

The operation of the mechanism thus far described may be briefly stated as follows: The buttons are delivered by a suitable feed mechanism, hereinafter to be described, upon the upstanding arm 68 of the button support and loop former. Thereafter the wire is fed through the eye of the button shank, at which time the parts are in the positions shown. in Fig. 8. Thereafter the actuating rack bar 24 is forced rearwardly, either by the hand lever 26 or by the foot actuated mechanism as described. The first action of said bar, through the disk 31 is to advance the wire shearing and loop forming member 37 through the action of the teeth 56 and 59. At this time the teeth of the driver 36 are in rear of and out of mesh with the disk teeth 58, but the drivergmoves forwardly with the shearing and loop forming member by reason of the engagement of the shoulders and 48 thereon. Said member is provided at its forward end, in horizontal alinement with the delivered end of the wire, with notches 110 which engage over the wire as the member 37 is forced forwardly. By reason of the fact that the wire is held rigidly in the guide 94, the forward movement of the member 37 serves to shear the section of the wire bet-ween the guide flanges 52, 53. In the further forward movement of the member 37 the sheared oh portion of the wire is formed about the upstanding arm 68 ofthe button support and wire forming member, as indicated in Fig. 9. At the completion of this operation the gear teeth 58 of the disk 31 engage the teeth of the driver 36 and the teeth 59 pass out of driving engagement with the teeth of the forming and shearing mem-' ber 37. Therefore, in the continued movement of the disk 31 the shearing and forming member 37 is at rest and the driver 36 begins to advance relatively to the member 37. In the first part of the movement of the member 36 its forward curved end portion 112 engages the upstanding arm of the button supporting and looptorming member and swings the same downwardly out of the pathof the forward end of the loop closing member 36. The button is at this time supported by means hereinafter to be described.

In the continued advance of the driver member 36 the notched portion 111 thereof engages the closed portion of the staple formed 7 by the last operation and presses the ends of said staple through the material (Fig. 10) to which the buttons are being attached, and into the cam shaped notches 115 of an anvil 116 supported on a bracket 117 attached to the front end of the frame. The said cam notches turn the ends of the staple toward each other on the other side of the material and closes the loop, as shown in FigQlO. During the final rearward throw of the actuating bar 24 the wire feed lever is swung over to the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

' The actuating bar 24 is now shifted forwardly and acts to first retract the driver member 36 and permit the button support and forming member to rise, and to thereafter retract the shearing and forming memher. The final forward throw of the actuating bar acts through the disk 31 to swing the wire feed lever into its feedingposition to deliver another length of wire to a new button fed on the button support. The button supporting and loop forming member 65 is. held rigidly in its upper position when the forming members are retracted by means of a block 120 carried by the forming lever 37 adapted toengage the heel of the support in rear of its pivot 66. In the advance movement of the forming member the said member 65 is free to be depressed.

The buttons are fed from a receptacle or hopper 125 supported at the rear end of the machine frame on standards126, 126, the

buttons bein delivered from the receptacle to the loop orming mechanism through an inclined chute 127 that is connected at its upper end with a grooved inclined feed trough or Way 129 located at one end of the hopper above the bottom thereof. The said trough extends a distance beyond said hopper for connection with thechute. The chute 127-is preferably of rectangular cross section as shown in Fig. 17, and has an elongated central passage way 131 for the passage of the buttons and an elongated slot 132 for the passage of the button shanks. The feed trough 129 likewise has a shank guiding slot- 133 in line with the chute slot'132. The hopper has a swinging top 135 whereby to replenish the hopper, and has abottom swinging door 138 hinged at 139, whereby a charge of unused buttons may be readily re; moved from the hopper and a charge of buttons of another kind substituted therefor.

The buttons are delivered from the mass of buttons in the hopper to the feed trough by means of a feed wheel 142 which is rota tively mounted in the hopper closely adjacent to the end wall thereof and in a plane just inside thefeed trough 129. N The bottom of the hopper is inclined toward the feed wheel. The feed wheel is provided in its periphery with a series of projections 146, four being herein shown. These projections extend across the periphery of the wheel. The periphery of the wheel between these projections tapers outwardly toward the end wall of the hopper, as indicated at 147 in Figs. 14 and 15. The projections 146 terminate at the inner side of the wheel in thin, short arcuate flanges between which are formed receiving notches 148 through which the buttons pass to the tapered portion of the wheel and in the path of the projections 146, by which latter they are raised to the level of the feed trough 129, whereupon'the taper or inclination of the wheel periphery directs them to said feed trough.

A jogging device is provided which is re.-

.ciprocable through the bottom of the chute 129, to prevent the buttons from clogging therein. It comprises, as herein shown, a lever 150 pivoted at 151 to the end wall of the hopper and provided with a finger 152 adapted to reciprocate upwardly through an opening 153 in the bottom of the said trough. The said arm is normally held in its lower position by a spring 155 against a stop 156, and is vibrated once during each rotation of the feed wheel by means of a striker arm 157 that is attached to a shaft 158 to which the feed wheel is fixed, said shaft being. rota tively mounted in the end walls of the hop- .per.

The feed wheel is intermittently rotated by mechanism actuated romthe driver member 36, as herein shown, the actuating mechanism being made as follows: 162 designates a gear wheel fixed to the shaft 158 of the button feed Wheel. Said gear wheel meshes with a second gear wheel163 which is rotatively mounted on a shaft 164 that is fixed to the upper end of the standard 165 that rises from the rear end of the machine frame at one side thereof.. Fixed to said shaft 16 1- is a ratchet Wheel 168 that is adapted to be engaged by a pawl 169 which is pivoted at its forward end at 170 to the reciprocating driver member 36 and extends rearwardlybeneath the ratchet wheel. The pawl is held up against the teeth of the ratchet wheel by a spring 171 attached to the bed plate of the machine. \Vith this construction, when the reciprocating member 36 moves forwardly it rotates the feed wheel through the described pawl and ratchet mechanism geared thereto, the pawl riding idly over the ratchet teeth in the rearward movement of said reciprocating member. The ratchet wheel is held from turning backwardly during the rttractive movement of the pawl by a spring 174 attached to the bed plate and engaging the teeth of the ratchet wheel.

Referring now to the means for directing the buttons from the lower end of the chute 127 to the upstanding arm 68 of the holder 65 the same is made as followsrThe lower end of said chute 127 is supported on the cap piece through the intermediary of a bracket 180 having a rearwardly inclined upstanding part 181 with which is engaged a clip 182 fixed to the chute. The said bracket is also provided at its forward edge with lugs 18. r to engage the tube to hold the latter from lateral vibration. A rod 185, extending between and detachably fixed to flanges 186, 186 that rise from the bracket plate 180, fits down over the top of the chute and holds the lower end thereof from rising. The chute is tapered at its lower end to fit over the tapered front end of the cap plate 54c and the button shank slot 132 of the chute opens through said tapered lower side thereof in position to direct the shanks of the but- In this way.

tons into the slot 188 of a forked spring 189 that lies over and is attached to the tapered portion of the cap plate 5% and extends forwardly over a slotted portion of the cap plate, whereby the spring 189 may be depressed somewhat below the general level of the cap plate. 191, 191 designate springs lying over and fixed to the'forward, tapered end of the cap plate, one at each side of the central spring 189, and each provided with inwardly and backwardly turned end per tions 192, the'extreme rear ends 193 of which lie partially over the arms of the slotted spring 189 and are curved upwardly so that the buttons delivered upon the central spring may pass readily beneath the rearwardly directed arms of said springs, and in this manner be reliably held and confined until the same are delivered to the upstanding arm of the button supporting member 65.

The said buttons are forced between the directing and controlling springs thus described by means of a toothed wheel 195, fixed to a shaft 196'that is rotatively mount-- ed in the flanges 186, 186 of the bracket plate 180; said toothed wheel entering and rotating in. the lower end of the slotted chute 127 in position for the teeth thereof to urge the buttons from the lower end of the chute onto the lower slotted spring 189 and be tween-the same and the upwardly turned ends 192 of the springs 191. Said toothed wheel and its shaft, as herein shown, is driven by an operative connection with the reciprocable shearing and forming member 37, which is made as follows: 200 designates a ratchet wheel fixed to the end of the shaft 196, the teeth of which are engaged by the tooth of a pawl 201 that is pivoted at 202 to said reciprocable member 37. Said pawl is forced toward said ratchet wheel by means of aspring 208 attached at one end to the pawl and at its other end to the bed plate. A spring detent 20 t, attached to the said bed, and engaging the teeth of the ratchet wheel prevents the rotation of said wheel and the toothed'whcel 195 in a backward direction. With this construction, each time the reciprocable member 3? is moved backwardly the said toothed wheel is rotated in a direction to carry the buttons from the forward, lower end of the chute 127 between the spring or resilient guide members and from thence to the upstanding arm of the button supporting and forming member 65. it will be seen that the buttons are positively and reliably delivered to the said supporting and forming member with- I out liability of their being directed out of their proper path. -Tn order to hold the buttons releasable in the lower end of the chute until fed therefrom by the feed wheel 195 springs 220 are attached to the sides of the chute and have intnrued ends 231 that ertend inwardly across the open end of the LURQJESF;

' Jose of feedin a few saecial buttons this porting and forming member may be effected by swinging a latch 210 over the pawl 169 to hold it away from the ratchet wheel 168 against the action of its spring 171. Said latch is rotatively mounted on a stud 211 and may be locked in place by a wing nut 212 screw-threaded to said stud above the latch. The buttons to be so temporarily fed into the machine may be delivered to the feed trough by providing.

the same with an opening closed by an upwardly opening door 215, shown open in Fig. 3 and closed in Fig. 1.

In the operation of the machine the hopper 125 is filled with buttons and the lever 26, or other actuating means, is operated sufiiciently to feed the buttons to the feed trough 129 and the chute 127. Thereafter the wire from the spool 80 is threaded through the feeding and braking devices and through the guide 94:. The wirefeeding device, including the lever 85 and the dog 89, is swung away from the forming mechanism at the limit of the rearward throw of the actuating lever 26, at which time both reciprocating members 36, 37 are in their forwardmost positions. As the lever is swung forward the said reciprocating members are moved backward by their gear connections with the disk 31, and when the driver member has moved a given distance backwardly the upstanding end of the suprises in position to receive a button which is forced thereinto by the toothed wheel 195-. In the further forward movement of the actuating lever the wire feeding device feeds the wire through the eye of the button shank. In thh next forward throw of the actuating lever 26 the shearing and forming member 27 is forced forward and at once acts to cut 0d a section of the wire at the sides of the button and thereafter to form the cut-off section about the upstanding arm 68 of the supporting and forming member 85 to give the same the shape of a staple, as shown in Fig. 9. Thereafter in the further movement of the lever 26 the driver member is urged forward to drive the staple thusformed through the material and against the forming surfaces of the anvil 116 to close the loop about the side of the material opposite to the button, This completes one operation of the machine to at ach a button shearing and forming member,

to a shoe or other piece of'material. During the operation of the machine described the button feed mechanism has been actuated to feed the buttons'through the feed chute, and the toothed wheel 195 has been actuated to force the buttons from the lower end of the feed chute to the upstanding arm of the supporting and forming member 65.

While the several mechanisms constituting the complete machine have been described somewhat particularly, it will be understood that the structural details are capable of considerable variation within the spirit and scope of the invention, and the invention is not limited to such details except as herein made the submit of specific claims and as imposed by the prior art.

I claim as my invention 1. A button attaching machine, comprising in combination with a supporting frame, a slotted reciprocable shearing and forming member, a reciprocable driver member fitted in and guided by said slotted member and movable with and also independently of said latter member, a button supporting and forming member located at the end of and cooperating with said reciprocable members, with means for feeding buttons thereto, an anvil at the end of and cotiperat-ing with the driver member, said reciprocable members being each provided with a rack, a rotative member having angularly spaced sets of teeth to engage said racks, with means for rotating the same,- and means for feeding a wire through a button shank on the said support. 2. In a button attaching machine, a reciprocable shearing and forming member provided with a rack, a reciprocable driver member, also provided with arack and movable 'with and also independently of the means cooperating with said reciprocable members for forming a wire loop to fasten a button, and a rotative member provided with spaced sets of teeth to engage said racks on the reciprocable members to impart movement to the latter members, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a button attaching machine, a reciprocable shearing and forming member, a rieciprocable, driver member movable with an forming member, said reciprocable button fastening means cotiperating with members for forming a wire loop, racks carried by said members, two sets of gear teeth adapted to mesh, one with the rack of one member and the other with the rack-of the other member, one set of gear teeth acting in advance of the other, and means for actuating said gear teeth. 4. In a button attaching machine, a reciprocable shearing and forming member provided with a rack, a reciprocable driver member also provided with rack and independently of the shearing and A guided by the shearing and forming member and shouldered to engage a shoulder on the shearing and forming member whereby both members are initially advanced by power applied to the shearing and formin member, a spring to normally hold the shoulders together, two sets of gear teeth, one to engage one rack and the other to en'- gage the other rack to reciprocate said members at a predetermined timed relation, with means to actuate the gear teeth, and means to cooperate with said reciprocable members to form a wire loop to fasten a button.

5. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame, a slotted, reciprocable shearing and forming member, a reciprocable driver Jnember guided by said slotted member and having a shouldered, spring held connection with the said slotted member, arranged to effect simultaneous movement of both members during the initial movement of the shearing and forming member, means directly engaging and giving positive movement to said shearing and forming member, means directly engaging and giving positive movement to the driver member independently of the shearing and forming member, a depressible button support and forming member located at the ends of and cooperating with said reciprocable members and adapted to be depressed by the driver member during the advance movement of the driver member, means for feeding buttons to said support, an. anvil located at the end of and cooperating with the driver member, means to feed a wire through a button shank on the said support, and rigid means to hold said supporting member fixedly in its upper position when the shearing and forming member is retracted.

6. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame,

aslotted, reciprocable shearing and forming member, a reciprocable driver member guided by said slotted member and movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming member, a but-ton support ing and forming member located at the ends of and cooperating with said reciprocable members, with means for feeding the buttons thereto, an "anvil at the end of and cooperating with the driver member, said reciprocahie-members being each provided witha rack, a rotative member having a pair of .angularly spaced sets of teeth to engage the racks, said 'rotative member being provided with a third set of gear teeth, a reciprocable actuating bar engaging the latter gear teeth, and means for feeding a wire through the reciprocable members.

, 7. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame, a reciprocable shearing and forming memshanks of the buttons across the path of said 7 ose ass means for giving movement to said reciproembracing a rocking disk.

cable members, having sets of gear teeth to mesh with said racks, swmgable wire feeding means pivoted to the supporting frame, and shoulders on said disk to engage and give movement to said wire feeding means.

8. In a button attaching machine, a reciprocable shearing and forming member provided with a rack, a reciprocable driver member also provided with a rack and movable with and also independently ,of the shearing and forming member, means 00- operating with said reciprocable members for forming a wire loop to fasten a button, a member having two sets of teeth, each set adapted to engage one of the racks, and one set of teeth acting on its associated rack prior to engagement of the other set of teeth with its rack, and means for giving movement to said toothedmeniber.

9. A button attaching machine comprising a reciprocable shearing and forming member, reciprocable driver member, means cooperating therewith for forming a button fastening wire loop, a rocking member for imparting a predetermined movement to said reciprocable members, and wire feeding means comprising a pivoted wire feeding lever, said rocking member being provided with a notch to receive said lever and having diverging shoulders spaced a distance apart greater than the width of said lever to engage and give movement to said lever. v

10. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame, a reciprocable shearing and forming'member, a reciprocable driver member movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming member, a button supporting and forming member coiiperating with said reciprocable members, an anvil cooperating with said driver member, actuating means for said reciprocable members, means for feeding a wire through the shanks of the buttons across the path of the said reciprocable members, a button chute to deliver the buttons to said driver member, a feed wheel for feeding the buttons fr'om said chute to said button support, and operative connections between the said feed wheel and the reciprocable forming member forsope ating the feed wheel.

1.1. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame,

a reciprocable shearing and forming memmember, a

aeaaaa ber, a reciprocable driver member movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming membeiga button supporting and formin member cooperating with said reciprocab e members, an anvil cooperating with said driver member, actuatmg means for said reciprocable members,

forming member and engaging said ratchet wheel.

12. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame, a reciprocable shearing and forming member, a reciprocable driver member movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming member, a button supporting and forming member coiiperating with the said reciprocable members, an anvil cooperating with the said driver members, actuating means for said reciprocable members, a button chute, means for forcing the buttons from said button chute, a slotted guide in line with the chute to guidingly engage the shanks of the buttons and guide springs between which and said slotted guide the buttons are delivered to the button support- 13. A button attaching machine comprising, in combination with a supporting frame, a reciprocable shearing and forming member, a reciprocable driver member movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming member a button supporting and forming member, cooperating with said reciprocable members, an anvil cooperating with said driver member, means for reciprocating said reciprocable members, means for feeding a wire through the button shanks in the path of-the reciprocable members, a button chute, means for forcing the buttons from said chute to said button supporting member, a. cap plate for confining the reciprocable members in place provided at its forward end with a notch, a slotted spring over the notched end of said cap plate and beneath the discharge end of the chute and guide springs arranged above the arms of said slotted spring and separated in line with the slot of the latter spring.

14. A button attaching machine comprising, incombination with a supporting frame, a reciprocable shearing and forming reciprocable driver member movable with and also independently of said shearing and forming member, a button supportin and forming member cooperating with too said reciprocable members, with means for feeding the buttons thereto,'an anvil cooperating with said driver member, means for actuating said latter members, means for feeding a wire through button shanks across the path of the recipro'cable members, said driver member being provided on its upper face at its forward end with a groove to receive and guide the button shanks to the button suport, and the butt-on support being provided in line with said groove with a notch, a button chute to de liver buttons to said driver member, having a button shank guide slot in line with and opening into the groove of the driver member, means for forcing the buttons from the chute to said support, a cap plate for confining the reciprocable members in place provided at its forward end above the ends of said members with a slot, a spring over said cap plate beneath the discharge end of the chute and slotted over the slot of the cap plate, and spring plates attached to the cap plate at the sides of the slotthereof and provided with rearwardlv turned arms which overlie the arms of the slotted spring and are upwardly turned at their terminal portions.

15. In a button attaching machine,'the combination with a reciprocable shearing and forming member and a driver member, with means cooperating therewith to cut and form a wire threaded through a button shank and to closethe loop formed of said wire, of a rotat-ive disk provided on its periphery with spaced series of gear teeth and racks on said reciprocable members for meshing engagement with said gear teeth.

16. In a button attaching machine, the combination with a reciprocable shearing and forming member and a driver member, with. means coiiperating and form-a wire threaded through the button shank and to close the loop formed of said wire, of a rotative disk provided on its periphery with a pair of spaced series of gear teeth, racks on said reciprocable me nbers for meshing engagement with said gear teeth on the disk, a third series of gear teeth on the disk and a reciprocable rack bar for engagement with the latter series of teeth.

17. In a button attaching machine, the combination with a toothed reciprocable shearing and forming member and a toothed driver member, with means coiiperating therewith to cut and form a wire threaded through a button shank and to close the loop formed of said wire, of a toothed. rocking member for giving concurrent and independent movement to the said members, and means actuated by said rocking member for feeding wire through the shank of the button. 18. In a button attaching machine, the combination with button supporting and therewith to Tilt loop forming members, of a chute, means for directing buttons from said chute to the supporting member, embracing a notched cap plate, a slotted spring over the notched portion of the cap plate and beneath the dis charge end of the chute, and separated guide spring members arranged above the arms of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

discharge end of the chute, and guide spring members above the arms of saidslotted spring and provided with upturned terminals to facilitate the entrance of buttons between said spring members and the arms 20 of said slotted spring.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses,

August, A. D. 1912.

CHARLES BARANOVITS,

Witnesses:

G. E. DOWLE, W. L. HALL.

Commissioner of Patents,

this 13th day of' 

